100,000 pigs to be destroyed

[JP1]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1444602733672153094

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

I’ve absolutely no sympathy with anyone facing a labour shortage. If you’ve built a business which is only viable by exploiting cheap foreign labour and suppressing the wages of British workers you’ve only yourself to blame.

Same as the hauliers. Businesses should have been investing in their British workforce rather than a “race to the bottom” of wages using immigrants. Greedy barstewards.

While what you say is 100% true, we are all guilty by association by selling at or below the true cost of production.

We have sleep walked into the supermarkets' trap and now there is no-one else to sell to. That's why the lorry drivers on the other thread are held up for hours waiting to unload. If you don't deliver for the supermarkets, you don't deliver. No skin off the supermarket's nose if you are losing money.

It's the same for the shoppers, unwittingly having starved the high street to near extinction, they have nowhere else to go either.

It's going to be interesting to see how this pans out.

 

[JP1]

Business fury as ministers warn they are responsible for shortages

Industry chiefs warned that the burden of higher wages will hit consumers as the government dug its heels in despite rising alarm that supply chain chaos could continue for months.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[honeyend]

Actually the BBC Economics Editor did a great piece on Newsnight Friday and Marr really pinned Boris on Sunday morning

This has been going on for weeks, but until the cracks were visible it was ignored, and Newsnight is not exactly primetime viewing, and Marr has been filtering out the bad stuff, and not actually confronting their lies for months.

I find this offensive, from a BBC interview which I bet most people haven't seen

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1444606296691511306

This video of which seems to be rationed, and seems only available if you search Twitter.

There is a wonderful programme on Radio 4 about Lis Truss, who has been every shade of political colour, and changes what she says to fit the job she is after, and it explains the mindset. They are only interested in what they see is winning, and will change what they say to suit the audience, they want to suck up to. They are not interested in looking after working people, they are just the minions, that their mates are making money for.
I

 

[Lowland1]

This has been going on for weeks, but until the cracks were visible it was ignored, and Newsnight is not exactly primetime viewing, and Marr has been filtering out the bad stuff, and not actually confronting their lies for months.

I find this offensive, from a BBC interview which I bet most people haven't seen

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1444606296691511306

This video of which seems to be rationed, and seems only available if you search Twitter.


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There is a wonderful programme on Radio 4 about Lis Truss, who has been every shade of political colour, and changes what she says to fit the job she is after, and it explains the mindset. They are only interested in what they see is winning, and will change what they say to suit the audience, they want to suck up to. They are not interested in looking after working people, they are just the minions, that their mates are making money for.
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That’s been my view all along it’s all about getting power which is achieved by telling people what they want to hear but when they get into power they haven’t got a clue what to do. Obviously he thinks he can solve it by retraining furloughed travel agents as slaughterhouse workers

 

[An Gof]

I urge folks to watch the Marr clip and make up your own mind

And if you think it’s “just” the pig sector take a look at the press this morning on the fertiliser crisis looming …..

Do you have any links for the fert crisis articles?

 

[JP1]

Do you have any links for the fert crisis articles?

All over the radio this morning. Will answer properly but need to focus on helping pig campaign going live right now

 

[honeyend]

I know not everyone does Twitter, I use for work, and to find sources of information, but if you have family who use it, get them to post and retweet things like this. There is nothing so far on the One O'clock News about farmers protesting at Conference.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1444992453635870725

 

[JP1]

NSA highlights inappropriateness of PM’s mass cull suggestion, for any livestock sector | News | National Sheep Association

NSA highlights inappropriateness of PM’s mass cull suggestion, for any livestock sector, news from the National Sheep Association

www.nationalsheep.org.uk

 

[Henarar]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1444602733672153094

whats so wrong with that ?

 

[JP1]

whats so wrong with that ?

NSA highlights inappropriateness of PM’s mass cull suggestion, for any livestock sector | News | National Sheep Association

NSA highlights inappropriateness of PM’s mass cull suggestion, for any livestock sector, news from the National Sheep Association

www.nationalsheep.org.uk

 

[JP1]

whats so wrong with that ?

We've never had a cull of healthy livestock ever. Processors have refused to take more than 75% of contracted pigs due to labour shortages . This isn't of pig farmers making

 

[Henarar]

We've never had a cull of healthy livestock ever

yes we bloody well have

 

[tepapa]

yes we bloody well have

Foot and mouth would be the blindingly obviously one.

 

[Henarar]

Foot and mouth would be the blindingly obviously one.

BSE cohorts

 

[JP1]

yes we bloody well have

No we haven't. We've had contiguous culls as part of a disease control programme. This welfare cull has nothing to do with animal health at all

 

[curlietailz]

He sounded less like a prime minister and more like a vegan activist. “The animals are going to be killed anyway”.

That’s a Vegan Mantra
Very very worrying

 

[Henarar]

No we haven't. We've had contiguous culls as part of a disease control programme. This welfare cull has nothing to do with animal health at all

Well thats not what the ministry vet said when he came to put them to sleep, more to do with apeasing your eu mates while the french swept their own problems under the carpet
what about all the cows that were killed and just burnt I spose next you will be saying they had something wrong with them.
chap not far from here had his whole flock killed absolutely nothing wrong with them
what about dairy farmers that get stuck with calves and end up shooting them owing to TB breakdown next you will be saying there is something wrong with all of them
disease control FFS
and anyway that is all nothing to do with the question I asked

 

[JP1]

Well thats not what the ministry vet said when he came to put them to sleep, more to do with apeasing your eu mates while the french swept their own problems under the carpet
what about all the cows that were killed and just burnt I spose next you will be saying they had something wrong with them.
chap not far from here had his whole flock killed absolutely nothing wrong with them
what about dairy farmers that get stuck with calves and end up shooting them owing to TB breakdown next you will be saying there is something wrong with all of them
disease control FFS
and anyway that is all nothing to do with the question I asked

Look I'm too busy to be arguing about your semantics today. Fact we as a concerted industry should be assisting with the argument to Government that this is a very real prospect of a euthanasia programme unassociated with health

 

[Suffolk Serf]

Well thats not what the ministry vet said when he came to put them to sleep, more to do with apeasing your eu mates while the french swept their own problems under the carpet
what about all the cows that were killed and just burnt I spose next you will be saying they had something wrong with them.
chap not far from here had his whole flock killed absolutely nothing wrong with them
what about dairy farmers that get stuck with calves and end up shooting them owing to TB breakdown next you will be saying there is something wrong with all of them
disease control FFS
and anyway that is all nothing to do with the question I asked

At least in most of those cases (shot calves in TB lockdown excepted) there was financial compensation. In the current plight of the pig farmers, there is no market for those pigs, the farmer will have completely run out of space, be running out of money, patience and options.
Really, sometimes, you are just better not posting if you haven't a frigging clue.